The responsibility for snap parliamentary elections is borne by President Igor Dodon. There were all the preconditions for the Party of Socialists and the Bloc ACUM to reach an agreement. The two constituent parties of the Bloc, PAS and PPDA, issued a decision by which they announced they are ready to vote in a Socialist nominee for Parliament Speaker and the Socialists thus didn’t have maneuvering space.
“Igor Dodon had three faces that he showed in turn to whom he had to at the right moment. He is very afraid of Vladimir Plahotniuc and the Democratic Party. There is no doubt about this. They blackmail him as they have serious things against him and I make such an assertion realizing that the Russian Federation is a factor of influence and that not even Russia had a say for Igor Dodon, who gathered political benefits by capitalizing on the personal image of Vladimir Putin. However, Igor Dodon tried to play a false game with the Russian Federation, with the own party and a real game of major interest with and in favor of the PDM,” public policy expert Ștefan Gligor was quoted by IPN as saying in the talk show “In Depth” on ProTV Chisinau channel.
Journalist Vitalie Călugăreanu said Igor Dodon, these arrangements and his fears to go against the one to whom he made promises in 2016, when the Democratic Party helped him win the presidential elections with all its machinery, not the Party of Socialists were the big problem of the last parliamentary elections. “When Igor Dodon was requested to go against Vladimir Plahotniuc, he refused. Moscow probably has its reasons to ask this from the Head of State,” noted the journalist.
He stated these things will be punished by the Russian Federation and the first signals will come rather swiftly and can lead to the PSRM losing this label of “Moscow’s party” in the Republic of Moldova and this party will thus lose money and voters together with this.
